Principles Quotes

Work is important to me. I want to do things for principle, not just for the sake of doing them.

I firmly believe that the principles behind Contraction & Convergence provide the best long-term framework for a fair and equitable climate change mitigation policy

We all like to hear a man speak out on his convictions and principles. But at the same time, you must understand that when you're running on a ticket, you're running with a team.

The 80/20 Principle, like the truth, can make you free. You can work less. At the same time, you can earn more and enjoy more. The only price is that you need to do some serious 80/20 thinking.

Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap

Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.

The anthropic principle is an unfortunate name as it implies something about humanity.

There's a time for debate and a time for consensus. There's a time for advocacy and time for first principles.

The way I have progressed as a writer over the years is to try and stay true to the principles I absorbed.

The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature.

The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.

Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary premises/principles.

...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.

...in this way the structure of the universe- I mean, of the heavens and the earth and the whole world- was arranged by one harmony through the blending of the most opposite principles.

Those who believe that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state.

But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even purpose.

We do not know how to formulate string theory nor do we know its underlying principles. Surprisingly, this fact does not stop us from making progress.

In Critical and baffling situations, it is always best to return to first principle and simple action

Positive economics is in principle independent of any particular ethical position or normative judgment...In short, positive economics is or can be an "objective" science.

The design of a temple depends on symmetry, the principles of which must be most carefully observed by the architect.

I could not comprehend the justice of that law, or that religion, which upholds or recognizes the principle of slavery.

Like life and people, it is full of paradoxes. Etiquette is based on tradition, and yet it can change. Its ramifications are trivialities, but its roots are in great principles.

Some level of truthfulness has always been seen as essential to human society, no matter how deficient the observance of other moral principles.

As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way.

Some of the domestic evils of drunkenness are houses without windows, gardens without fences, fields without tillage, barns without roofs, children without clothing, principles, morals or manners.

Let your thoughts be ruled by principle, and then live up to your thoughts.

We must spread our principles, not with words but with deeds, for this is the most popular, the most potent, and the most irresistible form of propaganda.

Damn your principles! Stick to your party.

Academic freedom is being lost by a great many people who dare to challenge Darwinism. That's a terrifying situation. That's contrary to the principles of science.

Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.

The Ukrainian opposition should adopt democratic unity as its main principle, and it also must have one leader.

It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles; a world where we are always moral and our enemies always immoral.

This is a core principle of my presidency - if you threaten America, you will find no safe haven.

As I see it, the greatest responsibility of motherhood is to make sure that our children know that there are principles of kindness, compassion, integrity, excellence, and discipline.

The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a richly mediated social principle; hence my use of the term social ecology.

The Pearl Principle - no inner irritation, no pearl.

(Waste = Loss): The first rule of business is to survive and the guiding principle of business economics is not the maximisation of profit, it is the avoidance of loss

Carob works on the principle that, when mixed with the right combination of fats and sugar, it can duplicate chocolate in color and texture. Of course, the same can be said of dirt.

We need more than new policies. We need a new worldview, and a new bottom line. We need to replace economic values as our ordering principle, with humanitarian values as our ordering principle.

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree to its leaves.

Blind zeal is soon put to a shameful retreat, while holy resolution, built on fast principles, lifts up its head like a rock in the midst of the waves.

A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably.

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.

Subjectivism is not an absolute principle; it is a necessary but not sufficient condition for sound methodology.

The principles of the SPD have remained the same for 150 years: democracy, human dignity, justice and inclusion. We will never change those principles.

I have mastered the principles of several religions. They have all shocked me by the violence which I should have to do to my reason to accept the dogmas of any one of them.

Tis a principle of war that when you can use the lightning, 'tis better than cannon.

A modern mathematical proof is not very different from a modern machine, or a modern test setup: the simple fundamental principles are hidden and almost invisible under a mass of technical details.